Former principals at Architectural Engineers Collaborative in Austin have taken a leap of faith and founded Leap!Structures PLLC, a new structural engineering firm. Tak Chu, Rik Haden and Tatsuya Kiguchi recently moved into offices at 1000 E. Cesar Chavez Blvd.

In an email to the Austin Business Journal, Haden said the company is handling design assignments but did not elaborate. Several projects described on leapstructures.com were completed by the new founders during their previous tenure at AEC, Haden said.

They included the Whole Foods Market at the Hill Country Galleria, Lake Hills Church children’s building, the PeopleFund offices and several projects at Rice University in Houston.

Jan Buchholz covers commercial and residential real estate, construction and architecture and retail and restaurants for the Austin Business Journal.

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